Africa Hotel Aksum
Aksum, Ethiopia
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Timkat in Axum
We arrived in Axum in time for the Timkat festival which is the Orthodox Epiphany. We watched a large procession of priests and worshippers take the original Ark of the Covenant (well probably not the original, but most people in Ethiopia believe it is) from it's home in the Maryam Zion church to the Queen of Sheba pools, where everyone spent the …
Ethiopia's ancient civilisation
After leaving Gondor we had a hell bus road on dusty bumpy roads over the Simien mountains, risking our lives at many stages - you wouldn't believe how scary it can be watching the bus driver TRYING to do a 3-point turn around a hairpin curve at the top of a mountain... on the 3rd attempt we finally managed to reverse (and not move further forward …
Trekking In The Highlands
I'm afraid that this blog will have to be photo-less as the internet connection is (being polite here) a tad slow!
The last blog finished with us in Lalibela, after having had two enjoyable days looking around the rock-hewn churches. We then headed off on a community development tourism project in the highlands (2 500 m – 3 200m) …
Night encounter with hyenas and arrival to Aksum
The trip from Debark to Aksum, about 260km, was really a pain in the neck. I was supposed to change bus in Shire and take another bus to Aksum from there. However it took 12 hours in total to reach Shire, most boring bus ride ever! When I arrived in Shire, all buses already left for Aksum and me and other tourists we had to catch a minibus. We …
Axum, stelaes and tombs
I was quite tired from all the hiking up the Tigrai monastery and just spent a couple of days in Axum chilling around, enjoying Mango-Avo juices and of course visiting the axumite stelaes and tombs. They are quite impressive thou and there is still loads to discover in Axum.. the town itself is not so cool like most of the towns in Ethiopia.
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